Dr. Yue Kuo, Dow Professor in Texas A&M University’s Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, has received The Electrochemical Society’s (ECS) 2007 Electronics and Photonics Division Award for his work with semiconductors.

The Spur Volunteer Fire Department (VFD) in Dickens County has received a 2006 Assistance-to-Firefighters Grant (AFG) from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Dr. G. Kemble Bennett, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. John W. Poston Sr. interim head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University.

More than 50 professionals from educational institutions, governments and industries throughout the world have come to College Station for a three-week seminar in nuclear technology.